Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp. Common Shares

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All participants please stand by. Your conference is ready to begin. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Q2 Algonquin Power and Utilities Corporation earnings call. Following the presentation, there will be a question and answer session. To ask a question, please press star 1 on your telephone keypad. I would now like to turn the call over to Ms. Amelia Tsang. Please go ahead.

Thank you. Good morning, everyone, and thanks for joining us this morning for our second quarter 2002 earnings conference call. Presenting on the call today are Aruna Bhaskoda, our President and Chief Executive Officer, and Arthur Kasperzek, our Chief Financial Officer. Also joining us this morning for the question and answer part of the call will be Jeff Norman, our Chief Development Officer, and Johnny Johnson, our Chief Operating Officer. To accompany our earnings call today, we have a supplemental webcast presentation available on our website, AlgonquinPowerandUtilities.com. Our financial statements and management discussion and analysis are also available on the website, as well as on Cedar and EDGAR. Before continuing the call, we would like to remind you that our discussion during the call will include certain forelooking information, including, but not limited to, our expectations regarding earnings, capital expenditures, pending acquisitions, asset recycling, growth and pending legislation. At the end of the call, I will read a notice regarding both forward-looking information and non-GAAP measures, please also refer to our most recent MD&A, filed on Cedar and Edgar, and available on our website for additional important information on these items. On our call this morning, Arun will provide an overview of our Q2 performance. Arthur will follow with the financial results, and then Arun will conclude with an update on our strategic plan for the business. We will then open the lines for questions. I ask that you restrict your questions to two and then re-queue if you have any additional questions to allow others the opportunity to participate. And with that, I'll turn it over to Arun.